KOSMOS CEMENT COMPANY
(A Partnership)
Notes to the Financial Statements
December 31, 2019 and 2018
(In thousands of U.S. Dollars)
(1) | Description of Business |
Kosmos Cement Company (the Partnership or KOSMOS) was formed under the Uniform Kentucky Partnership Act on March 7, 1988, for the purpose of mining, manufacturing, purchasing, distributing, and/or selling any and all types of cement, clinker, other intermediary products, and/or aggregates, principally in the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and engaging in all activities coincident thereto. The Partnership is presently owned 75% by CEMEX, Inc., a Louisiana corporation (CEMEX), which is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CEMEX S.A.B de C.V. (CEMEX Parent), and 25% by Buzzi Unicem USA, which stems from the merger, early in 2004, of RC Cement (Buzzi Unicem) and Lone Star Industries (Dyckerhoff). The term of the Partnership shall continue until December 31, 2030 unless sooner terminated in accordance with the terms of the Partnership agreement. In March 2020 the Partnership sold substantially all of its operating assets and certain liabilities to Eagle Materials Inc., including property, plant and equipment, inventory, asset retirement obligation, and leases, for an aggregate purchase price of $665,000, please refer to note 13 Subsequent Events.
Partners are obligated to make pro rata capital contributions to (a) meet the working capital requirements of the Partnership or to maintain the facilities and any other assets of the Partnership as may be deemed necessary from time to time, provided such amounts do not exceed $2 million per year in the aggregate, and (b) expand the productive capacity of the Kosmosdale plant. The Partnership may request voluntary pro rata capital contributions in excess of the obligatory amounts.
Each partner has a preferential right of purchase or right of first refusal if the other partner desires to dispose of its entire interest in the Partnership. Within 60 days of a change in control with respect to the ultimate parent of either partner, the other partner has the right to sell its interest in the Partnership for a stipulated price to the partner that has experienced the change in control.
(2) | Significant accounting policies |
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates
Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include the carrying amount of property, plant and equipment, and goodwill; valuation allowances for receivables and inventories; asset retirement obligations and litigation and environmental liabilities; and lease classification and accounting.
Management evaluated the accounting and classification of the partners’ interests and concluded it represents equity and should be presented as partners’ capital in accordance with ASC 825, Financial Instruments.
The Partnership agreement provides that all Partnership items constituting, for federal tax purposes, income, gain, expense, loss, deduction, or tax credit for each taxable year shall be
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